Forum: Photography


Subject: Image size guidelines.

Misha883 opened this issue on May 02, 2002 ยท 12 posts


ASalina posted Thu, 02 May 2002 at 12:03 PM

Since I've had this monitor and card setup for so long I
kinda presume that others have a similar setup, seeing as
how I always seem to be behind the hardware curve compared
to other people. I have a 21" monitor running in 1600x1200,
so those dimensions are the absolute maximum limit for my
final images. My digi-cam produces images that are 2272x1704
and after cropping I scale that image by about .5 as a
matter of course, which leaves me with an image of less than
1136x852. A little large, I guess, for smaller display
systems. I always try to go for maximum quality / minimum
jpeg compression that stays under the 500k limit.

That's for my Gallery postings. For here in the forum, I
typically reduce the dimensions by half again (568x426)
and stay under the 200k limit.

This brings up a question that I've had in the past: Would
PNG files help in preserving quality while maintaining small
file size, and will Renderosity accept this file format?
Would many people have trouble viewing this format?